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A Woman Without Lies
Angel is an artist on Vancouver Island who, with her close friend Derry, is trying to sell their fancy house. An accident leaving Derry with a broken leg, she must ttake Hawk to all the interesting places she can to get him to buy.
There is attraction, but Hawk is a misogynist after a bad experience left him jaded, and believes the worst of Angel...who lost her fiance and family the night before her wedding.
Its a very emotional read, but poignant ...Beautiful Dreamer
Hope Gardener loves her ranch more than anything, and she can barely keep it running. Her wells are running dry and her cattle are starving. The only way she can get water is from the pumps on the neighboring ranch, owned by a man who has tried to rape Hope in the past.
Rio is a man who really has no home. He is a wanderer with a gift for finding water. When he hears Hope needs help, he finds her and is instantly captivated by her. He agrees to h...Die In Plain Sight
Morrow, Jul 2003, 24.95, 400 pp.
ISBN: 0060504129
In California, renowned artist Susa Donavon will paint a canvas in front of an audience. Her work will be auctioned as part of raising money for the Friends of Moreno County. Additionally Susa will appraise any works brought in by patrons of the arts with the money raised also donated to the Friends of Moreno County.
Art buyer and artist Lacey Quinn brings in paintings done by her late grandf...Eden Burning
Volcanic Scientist Chase Wilcox decides to move to Hawaii in order to study the volcanos, live with his daughter, and prevent his brother's marriage from being destroyed by a gold-digger. Chase is very cynical about women due to his ex-wife, who married him for his money and then abandoned him and their daughter. He believes that all women are liars and sluts, with the exception of his brother's wife. When his brother begins to talk constantly about a b...

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Enchanted
This is the story of Ariane the Betrayed and Simon the Loyal in the reign of King Henry the first. Ariane, a Norman heiress, must wed Simon. She makes her revulsion of the marriage bed known. All know she was betrayed but none knnow how or why...but the reader knows she was drugged and raped by a friend and not believed by her own father, hence the betrayel. This is her moving, wonderful story of overcoming fear and mending broken hearts....Midnight in Ruby Bayou (Romance)
Faith Donovan is a jewelry designer unwittingly caught up in international espionage involving a missing ruby called the Heart of Midnight. Owen Walker is the man assigned by her family to be her protector. Faith and Walker were both burned by love before and try to resist the inevitable attraction they feel as they fight to stay alive long enough to test the boundaries....Midnight in Ruby Bayou (Thriller/Action)
A large, valuable ruby known as the Heart of Midnight is stolen from a Russian museum & goes missing. The Russian mafia thinks an American jewelery designer has the gem & are intent on recovering it...at any cost. The story centers on the female designer & her male bodyguard, hired by her brother. They end up in Ruby Bayou in South Carolina, which is his boyhood home. She has been commissioned to design a necklace for her friends wedding. They begin putt...Moving Target (Thriller/Action)
At first, her grandmother's death in her isolated desert home didn't seem strange. But, once Sarena receives the letter the woman who raised her had left with her lawyer, Sarena knows differently. And the illustrated pages that accompany it are small clues to what Sarena comes to find out is a massive--and historical--mystery. She takes her pages to Erik North, an expert and collector of the beautifully crafted manuscript pages, and instantly senses t...Moving Target (Romance)
A year ago someone murdered Serena Charters' grandmother Lisbeth by burning the elderly woman's cabin with her inside it. Though no one has been caught, California finally releases the estate to Serena as the only known member of Lisbeth's family. Serena inherits some small property, a Swiss bank account, a safety deposit box, and four pages from a centuries-old text that should have contained six hundred vellum sheets.
Serena turns to medieval ...Only His
A young woman from the Virginia's hires a man as guide to help her find her "husband" (really her brother) in the Colorado Rockies. The Civil War has decimated her home and she has decided to try to build a new life out west with her brother. She doesn't realize that the man she has hired has his own agenda, believing her "husband" is the man who left his sister pregnant. His sister died, along with her baby. Most of the book takes place as they travel a...

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Only Love
Shannon Conner Smith is a young widow living alone on harsh Colorado land. Her husband, who was really her great-uncle, had died 3 years earlier and Shannon has been fending for herself as best she can. She's poor, terrible at hunting, and has the unwanted attention of many men focused on her. When she is being taunted by four men in town Whip Moran steps in and defends her. Whip is a wanderer who has spent the majority of his life traveling around the w...Only Mine
Lady Jessica (Jessi) Charteris is in a terrible bind. In a few weeks she will be married off to an elderly, lecherous lord. As a young girl, she has seen what torture a loveless marriage brings. Desperate for an escape, she begs her childhood friend Wolfe Lonetree to marry her instead. She promises respect, devotion, and companionship to Wolfe, but not the mutual passion and desire a husband and wife share.
Wolfe, a half-breed child of an English...Only You
Out of money and out of luck, lonely orphan Eve Starr deals with deft, steady hands and coolly stares at her opponents at the poker table: the Culpepper brothers who cruelly killed her guardians and stole their jewelry, an ancient map and diary. Gold hunter Matt “Reno” Moran decided to join the game, so taken was he by the girl with eyes and hair of the purest gold and a mouth that trembled.
Initially, Eve and the Culpeppers betted on money and the je...Remember Summer
Raine Smith is about to compete in the Olympics as a part of the American Equestrian team. Her father is an anti-terrorist investagator in the government, and he missed out on most of Raine's childhood because of his job. As a resault Raine is cynical and resentful of all special government agents. She knows what the job does to the lives of the people around the agent, and is cynical about having any kind of relationship with anyone associated with that...Running Scared
Since he hired her, casino owner, computer hacker, and gold collector Shane Tannahill has wanted his curator, Risa Sheridan. Only Shane doesn't date employees and Risa likes her job. When Risa's childhood friend--and suspicious character Cherelle shows up, Shane watches her. When Cherelle's arrival corresponds directly with an attack on Risa, the murder of three men, and new rumors of an ancient Druid hoard of gold, Shane knows Cherelle is connected. ...The Color of Death
Morrow, Jun 2004, 24.95, 400 pp.
ISBN: 0060504137
In Glendale, Arizona, gem cutter Kate Chandler is ecstatic because collector Arthur McCloud hired her to cut the Seven Sins sapphires. Her brother Lee Mandel delivers the gems to its owner, but in Florida he vanishes. Kate is frantic, but the police believe that Lee absconded with the goods and a girlfriend to the Caribbean. Kate disagrees if for no other reason than her brother was in love wit...

Elizabeth Lowell novels

The Wrong Hostage
Judge Grace Silva got a cryptic call from her son's private boarding school telling her to come to the school right away. Grace rushed immediately to the school fearing her son, Lane, was in trouble. Upon arriving there, she met Mexico's most corrupt and wanted druglord, Hector Rivas, telling her that she needed to present to them her ex-husband, Ted Franklin in exchange for her son. He told her that Ted stole money from him and if she couldn't get the m...This Time Love
Elizabeth Lowell
Morrow, Jan 2003, 19.95, 352 pp.
ISBN: 00600087358
Though in his early twenties, reporter Gabriel Venture knows what he wants and that is to become an international journalist visiting the globe. Currently, Gabriel is involved in a report on the Lost River Cave in New Mexico. His guide is a local teen Joy Anderson. The pair fall in love before Gabe moves on to explore and report on the Orinoco River mysteries.
Six years, ele...To the Ends of the Earth
Travis Danvers is a very wealthy ship designer who reluctantly agrees with his best friend, Rodney Harrington, to write a book about his life and his ships. Rodney Harrington is Catherine Cochran's agent. She is a professional photographer and Rodney gets her the photography job for The Danvers Touch which will be the name of the biography.
Travis was burned badly by a woman in the past and thinks that there isn't a woman alive on earth who isn't out...Too Hot to Handle
Tory Wells, a young diver recovering from a recent knee surgery, has come to Sundance Ranch to get a job while her leg heels. Having been promised a job at the ranch and needing the money to survive, she's upset when the handsome owner of the ranch refuses to hire her. Without enough money to afford a bus ticket home, Tory begins her walk back to town to look for a job. When she enounters a car full of rude and vulgar teenagers on the road back, she i...Warrior
A man made cold by war swore never to love, and is tested by a woman whose eyes show all the colors of time. Wildlife biologist Eden Summers is hired to track cougars in the beautiful mountains of Colorado, and is helped by local rancher Nevada Blackthorn, a man hardened by years of commando training in Afghanistan. He feels an instant attraction the moment he sees her, but fights it like a wolf trapped in a snare. He believes that love is a fairy-tale...Whirlpool
Cruz Rowan is a private investigator with a dark past. He is hired to track down a stolen Fabrege egg, and the trail leads him to Laurel Cameron Swann, whom the missing peice was shipped to. Cruz is imeediately fascinated by Laurel. She's smart, sexy, and doesn't hold his shady past against him. The only problem is that Cruz doesn't know if Laurel is an innocent caught up in his theft case, or if she's actually behind the theft.
Laurel trusts Cruz, but ...

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Winter Fire
Orphaned at 13, a bride at 14, widowed at 16, Sarah Kennedy has learned to depend on no one but herself - reserving all her love for her younger brother Conner. A hardened Civil War veteran, personal tragedy has taught Case Maxwell three things: to be patient, a deadly fighter, to love nothing that can die, and that justice is blind. But when confrontation with his sworn enemies, the Culpeper clan leaves him near death, Case finds himself under the ten...